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by WHYMPER, Frederick

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1868. WHYMPER, Frederick. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America-Now Ceded to the United States-and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific. London: John Murray, 1868. 1st ed. xx,331pp. Plates, large folding map. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Minor rubbing to spine ends, else very good. Arctic Bibliography 19424. Field 1657. Smith 10977. Ricks p. 255. Lowther 320. Wickersham 6030. The London edition is far more uncommon than the American. Account of the Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66. Whymper was the expedition's artist. With the bookplate of noted bibliophile and founder of Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White.

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Title
Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska
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WHYMPER, Frederick
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Date Published
1868
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AKXX, TRAVEL & EXP, FINE/GEN AM

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